A. J. Liebling Quotations

Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment.

It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.

I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.